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Madame Hydra

FIRST APPEARANCE (Wper as MH) Capta.n America «110 (February 1969): (MH VI) Nick Fury vs. SHIELD 93 (August 1988) REAL NAME (both) UnreveakxJ OCCUPATION (both) Subversive BASE (Both) Mobile HEIGHT (V.per) 5 fi 9 in ; (MH VI) 5 ft 11 In WEIGHT (Viper) 141 ibs: (MH VI) 135 Ibs EYES (both) Green HAIR (Viper) Black, green highlights: (MH VI) Brown, dyed green SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES (both) Formidablo combatant.

FACTFILE

REAL NAME

Countess Giulietta Nefaria

Originally the subvcrsivc organization HYDRA restricted its membership to men. The first fernale HYDRA agent was Laura Brown. Another fernale opcrative seized command of HYDRA s New York operations. took the name Madame Hydra, and battled Captain America. F.venuially she took a new alias, the Viper, and became one of the world s most dangerous terrorists. Another fernale Hydra agent. Madame HydraVI, clashed with SHIELD and allied with the Yh iow Ci aw. (Fivc other Madame Hydras her.) She committed suicide to ,avoul capturc. Viper has now reassumed name of Madame Hydra. PS

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M ADAME MASQUE

Raised by wealthy financier Byron Frost,

Whitncy Frost grcw up anticipating thc easy lifc ofa New York socialite, but when her adopdvę father died, her world collapscd. Lcarning that her biological father was thc Italian Count Nefaria. head of thc Maggia criminal orgamzation. she was manipulated i ino becoming his heir.

Following Nefanas imprisonment she became head of thc Maggia. now based in New York, but her .tppointment led to yec morę tragedy. A rnid on Stark Industries’ headquarters resulted in cmcł facial disfigurements. At thc suggestion of

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Madame Masquc.

Falling in Iovc with Tony Stark (Iron

Man), she impersonated his assistant to spend time with him. The relationship ended when Whitney betrayed her lovcr.

BACK TO HER ROOTS

Iron Man*s intervention in an attempt to rescue Whitney s father froin Avenger’s Mansion accidentally rcsultcd in tlie thc Count s death. Griefśtricken. Whitney returned to her criminal roots, oncc again taking thc reitis of thc Maggia.

Now fierccly opposed to Fony Stark. she has evcn madę efforts to kill him. She remaim at large, a lingering chink in thc arinor of the Iron Man. A O

Madame Maschje

FIRST AFFŁzAHANCJE

Tales of Suspenso 997 (January 1966)

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